salient vs projection

projection vs salient

salient and projection both are nouns.

salient is an adjective but projection is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
salient	Yes	Yes	No	No
projection	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, projection is a hypernym of salient; that is, projection is a word with a broader meaning than salient:

salient: (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy
projection: any solid convex shape that juts out from something

salient (noun)	projection (noun)
(military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy	the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
	the act of projecting out from something
	any structure that branches out from a central support
	the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
	a planned undertaking
	a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
	the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
	the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
	(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
	any solid convex shape that juts out from something

salient (adjective)	projection (adjective)
(of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees
having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward)

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